(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) Broke Jail - James O'Brien - "Pronounced Morphine Eater" For a few reasons, this is one of my favorite REWARD or WANTED postcards from my collection: 1) the escape took place in (Great Bend) Kansas; 2) the wanted picture of James O’Brien is not printed on the postcard, but is an actual photograph pasted to the card; and 3) a portion of the description of the fugitive advises he’s “a very pronounced morphine … [Read more...] about Broke Jail – James O’Brien – Pronounced Morphine Eater
Jim Hovious
Bottle Collector
(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) · Bottle Collector: Mike McJunkin It was a joke. After seeing a lot of fascinating bottles in Mike McJunkin’s extensive collection, I asked him, "Do you have earthquake insurance?" “No,” was his one-word reply. When he hesitated a moment, I hoped I hadn’t created an unpleasant image for him of shards of glass on the floor. But a few seconds later he offered, “I had a good friend whose wife had been … [Read more...] about Bottle Collector
